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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has taken on the general counsel of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Synthelabo for its Paris office. Joining as a partner in the mergers and acquisitions department, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi was a member of Sanofi’s executive committee as well as the company’s general counsel. Cohen-Tanugi handled the unsolicited public bid for Aventis […]

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